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Old 28-04-2007, 04:19 PM
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I am looking for this film if anyone has it to purchase on dvd please pm me .Many Thanks Bas

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Hi, I have a copy of this film send me a PM if you`re still looking
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I recently came across a picture-story page about this movie (which I'd never heard of) and was staggered at how the plot is identical to the recent Hollywood Blockbuster 'The Rock'.
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Whilst I accept that broad themes are inevitably duplicated in movie-making these specifics seem too much a coincidence to be so. Did 'The Rock' ever acknowledge its 'source' does anyone know?

Sorry if you haven't seen it and I've just given away the polt but Britmovie did it first: The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)

One chap I spoke to about this said I was wrong because he didn't remember there being a plot in 'The Rock'........... just lots of bangs and bright lights........

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I recently came across a picture-story page about this movie (which I'd never heard of) and was staggered at how the plot is identical to the recent Hollywood Blockbuster 'The Rock'.
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Whilst I accept that broad themes are inevitably duplicated in movie-making these specifics seem too much a coincidence to be so. Did 'The Rock' ever acknowledge its 'source' does anyone know?

Sorry if you haven't seen it and I've just given away the polt but Britmovie did it first: The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)

One chap I spoke to about this said I was wrong because he didn't remember there being a plot in 'The Rock'........... just lots of bangs and bright lights........
I think it's more a case of "has similarities to" rather than "based on"
The Rock did have a story, just.

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I think it's more a case of "has similarities to" rather than "based on" The Rock did have a story, just.
Yeah. A group of men seek to hold a city hostage by commandeering an island prison nearby, threatening it with rockets..........

I've just noticed that part of The Rock Plot involved the only man to have ever escaped from Alcatraz...... so how come Clint Eastwood wasn't in the film?

Thanks for the spoiler. Must find out how you do that.......
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I think The Siege of Pinchgut was the last Ealing film?

It's funny , I was in Sydney about 15years ago and asked the hotel concierge where Pinchgut was, and he told me he had never heard of it.I explained I had seen a film many years ago, and it turned out it had a different name locally, I think it was Fort Denison and was bang in the middle of the harbour. I went and visited , very intereting too.
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Is it the gun tower that cant fire its cannon because the vibration would destroy the whole building?.
It was also used as a secret HQ in the great Australian WWII series "SPYFORCE" 1971.
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I think The Siege of Pinchgut was the last Ealing film?

It's funny , I was in Sydney about 15years ago and asked the hotel concierge where Pinchgut was, and he told me he had never heard of it.I explained I had seen a film many years ago, and it turned out it had a different name locally, I think it was Fort Denison and was bang in the middle of the harbour. I went and visited , very intereting too.
I believe Pinchgut is the name of the island and Fort Denison sits on it.
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